Our lands were under occupation for nearly thirty years.

Armenia carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing against our people.

Hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis were forced out of their native lands, became refugees and displaced persons.

APA reports that on March 18, President Ilham Aliyev said these words in his address to the people of Azerbaijan in Talish village of Tartar region on the occasion of Nowruz holiday.

"Genocide was committed against our people, injustice was committed, war crimes were committed.

We will never forget it.

We should never forget this," said the President of Azerbaijan.